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Business Model for Startups

Business Plan 1. A document
your investors make you write that they don’t read 2. A useful place for you to collect your guesses about your business • Size of Opportunity • Customers • Channel • Demand Creation • Revenue/Expenses/Profit

Business Plan - Sum of
Hypotheses • Business plan collects your hypothesis • Adds facts as you know them today • Contains a plan of how to turn hypothesis into facts • Extrapolates results if hypothesis turn into facts • Has a business model which is clearly articulated

Business Model • Goal is
to get to a single diagram of your business • Start by drawing pieces of your business – Problem/Opportunity – Market Size – Distribution Channel – Demand Creation – Financial assumptions • Then put it all together

Total Available Market, Served Available
Market, Target Market TAM = how big is the universe Total Available Market Served Available Market Target SAM = how many can I reach Market with my sales channel Target Market (for a startup) = who will be the most likely buyers 25

sizing up the market $123
billion tourism industry inside the U.S. $1 billion English travel guides sold annually $210 million 20-35 year old travelers SF (Initial test market)

+ Sales Ecosystem Discussion channel
Mandate channel Sale Superintendant Another District district IT Director Engagement (Early Stages) School Dept. Head Another school in the district Teacher Teacher